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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Leftist is when vegan

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Damn leftist, they ruined leftism!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (8 children)

I'm a species-specific eater. I don't eat beef or pork because I like pigs and cows they are adorable and I wish them all the best.

I do eat lamb, because sheep are idiots and I got kicked by one as a child. For similar reason, I would also eat horse if it was commercially available.

Chickens would eat me if our sizes were reversed so they are fair game too. If you didn't want to get farmed you shoulda stayed T-Rex sized.

I eat mushrooms, but I am a little apprehensive about it because I know they are smarter than humans

[–] [email protected] 24 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I was about to disagree with you, but then I realized that some humans are certainly dumber than a mushroom

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

Some? Around a third I would say.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

I've heard goats are like mushrooms 👍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

horse is good eating. good for the climate too, since horses require so much maintenance. if we eat'em, they're gone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

There's an awkward open secret in the UK.

The new forest has a significant 'wild' pony population. More than the forest can support over winter. The excess is gathered up and sold. While some are brought as riders, most are sold to france. On a completely unrelated note. France has no problem eating horse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I tried. It's ok. I prefer pork or beef.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Nothing worse to people on Lemmy than another person with a SLIGHTLY different world view.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The only thing worse than a heathen is a heretic!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The People's Front Of Judea

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 23 hours ago

Not just Lemmy sadly

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago (17 children)

To be clear, I believe vegan/vegetarian is the morally correct position even though I do eat meat. My point is that if we worked together we could cause more good in the world than we do by fighting.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The vegan communities, in my experience, are pretty spiky. Even amongst vegans there's a huge rift, like they're competing on whose version is most ethical. It's turned me off actually interacting with them as I find my own balance of reducing suffering into this world.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's a general issue of any community that's organized around a belief and/or got ousted by society for too long I guess. Of course there'll always be people who are like this from the beginning, perhaps due to trauma, bad upbringing, bad education or whatever.

Gotta imagine a militant vegan bible-belt Linux FOSS-Bro… oh my god…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I agree. It's just a shame that people would rather sabotage than build a movement by attacking everyone on both the inside and outside of the fence.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Getting the average omnivore down to the recommended 6-8 ounces of meat per day would make a tremendous difference on its own. I really didn’t know how much excess protein I was consuming until I made some vegan and vegetarian friends.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

Woah 200g of meat a day is well sufficient... That is basically my max amount since I pretty much only have meat at dinner and that's more than a chicken breast which is the most amount of meat I'd consume at one time. I do consume quite a bit of dairy though (used to be cheese, but now for dieting reasons it's quark yogurts, milk, etc) and a few eggs, need that protein.

But the rest is all legumes, veggies, nuts, cereals, good carbs, etc. I'd struggle to eat more meat than that even when I didn't give a shit about my diet I think, but now that I do I also cut out all the non lean stuff so that does play a role.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Isn’t the recommended amount a lot lower than 6-8 ounces? It’s like 500g or 5 ounces per week.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same. People literally can not comprehend that I accept whole heartedly that I believe many of the things that I do and continue to do to be immoral.

Yeah, maybe I love meat too much and I'm too weak. That has absolutely nothing to do with how I establish my moral compass.

I'd like to be a truely good person, but I'll be goddamned if the way I do that is lowering the bar to where I already stand.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

“Our adversaries are the people on the other side of the aisle. Our enemies are right here”

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago

The rich don't even have to lift a finger to divide the left.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

That's called activism purism, I call it activism puritanism. It's, again, a very conservative way of being an activist but somehow appears in leftist groups. But I can't shake the fact that there's limits, anything that feels like a personal choice but impact hugely others, like vaccination.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And then, to perfectly demonstrate your point: 90% of this comments section!

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